Safari Bookmarks Gone

After migrating to iCloud this morning all my Safari Bookmarks disappeared. I backed them up but should I wait to see if iCloud restores them for me?

If you have a Time Machine (or some other) backup, it should not be difficult. Go to user > library > Safari > Bookmarks.plist, and restore from a version that still has the bookmarks. It happened to me as well and this is how I restored my bookmarks. It works.

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I did the typical software update like usual and when I restarted my computer, all of my settings, bookmarks, menu bar, and other little things were all put back to default.
the reason I'm mad is because I had hundreds of important sites/pages bookmarked on safari and now they're all gone.
any chance I can revert to previous settings for everything? It took me forever to tweak the computer to the way I like it.
Could anybody give me a reason on why it would do this? I've had my macbook since may 2006 and its never done this after an update.
I think the updates were quicktime, battery and possibly security. there were three.
thanks again.

Well, I do encounter similar problems as your ever since the update. If you had backup your safari bookmarks, perhaps you can restore your previous setting back (hopefully you did). If you didnt, I know of this software call CopycatX which is far more better that Backup (as it claims), not only duplicates all of your harddrive, but it does recovery as well.
For more information or trying its trial version if you like to over this site: http://subrosasoft.com/OSXSoftware/index.php?mainpage=product_info&productsid=7.
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Safari bookmarks gone after OS X update

I just did the OS X update to 10.4.5 a few days ago and just noticed all of my Safari bookmarks are now gone. Any magical way to retrieve them?
Would appreciate any assistance.
Dual 1.8 G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

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Very strange your bookmark file would be missing after the Update. Did a new bookmark file replace the old one (one way of telling would be the prompt about writing over an existing file when you moved the old file over)?
You've demonstrated the importance of having an external backup. Certainly has saved me time/energy on a number of occasions. What Backup program are you using? I use SuperDuper.

Can no longer get safari to work on my ipad.. bookmarks gone..etc.

I can no longer get safari to work. bookmarks gone..google will bring up cnn.com but I can't scroll it or get ride of keyboard...

First, double tap on the home button and your recent apps will appear in an area across the bottom of the iPad. Find the Safari icon and hold down on it until it begins to wiggle. Tap the minus sign in the upper left corner of the icon to quit the app. Tap the Home button again to stop the apps from wiggling then tap anywhere on the screen to return to the home screen.
Now go to Settings>Safari>Clear History, clear cookies, clear cache. Then tap the home button again to return to the home screen.
Now restart the iPad. Hold down on the sleep button until the red slider appears then slide to shut down. To start up again, hold down on the sleep button until the Apple logo appears and then let go of the button.
After the iPad has fully restarted, try the Safari App again.

Sync Safari / Bookmarks and now there are gone!! HELP!!vious settings? Wh

i synced Safari / Bookmarks for the first time yesterday and now all my bookmark folders are gone.
Can I restore to the pre

Hi S Crawford,
I'm afraid it's likely that they're gone for good. To double check, go to http://bookmarks.mac.com and login to see if your bookmarks have synched to there.
If they are present there, check your sync settings in the System Preferences -> .Mac area to see if you can synch them back to the computer.
If they're not present there then they're gone...
If you want to backup the bookmarks manually in future, copy this file to a safe location:
Hard drive -> Users -> Your username -> Library -> Safari -> Bookmarks.plist

Safari Bookmarks All Gone

I just rebooted my G4 laptop cause it was acting slow. I have lost all my bookmarks in Sarari. I have a back up at home but I am traveling. Is there some place to look that I am not finding by searching for Bookmarks?
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I think Safari's own list is now stored in this file:
"/Users/yourname/Library/Safari/Bookmarks.plist"
Hate that! Wish it was a plain vanilla html file. If that file got messed up or lost or over-written, there is still a chance that much of what you need is here:
"/Users/yourname/Library/Caches/Metadata/Safari"
When you open that folder you'll see a whole bunch of files with uninformative name, eg
84DCB8E3-5A0E-4161-9F06-5B5CAD6A0B09.webbookmark
If you double click the file it will take you to the web page. I have no idea what criteria determine what gets included in this cache.
If you open the folder, then do Command-F, use the criterion of Kind:Other and type Safari bookmark into the field many of the items will display an actual name. You can choose to view the search window in List View, which I find far more useful than the silly default of Groups.
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How do I delete ALL Safari bookmarks?

I am currently using a MacBook Pro with OSX Lion 10.7.2 and Safari 5.1.2 and would like to know how to delete ALL Safari Bookmarks.
I have selected the various titles under Collections and selected all the bookmarks on the right and deleted these. However, not that there is a Bookmarks section on the left just as there is a Collections section. The bookmarks under this Bookmarks section are the one's I can't seem to delete all of without selecting each individually. I believe these bookmarks might have been what was imported from my PC bookmarks when I converted. However, I would like to be rid of them and there are a lot to remove. It would be very nice if there were a less time consuming way to accomplish this task. I've gone to find this plist file that I've seen mentioned in the support archives and I don't know if I don't understand the structure of Macs well enough but I can not find the plist to remove.
Please help! I don't understand many acronyms and such that responses typically include so if you have a solution for me, please be very specific.
Thanx

don't know if I don't understand the structure of Macs well enough but I can not find the plist to remove.
Quit Safari.
Click a clear space on your Desktop. You'll see Finder top left corner of the screen.
From that menu bar click Go > Go to Folder
Type this in exactly as you see it here:   ~/Library/Safari
That will open a Finder window for you.
Move the Bookmarks.plist file to the Desktop.
Relaunch Safari.
That should remove all the Bookmarks from Safari.
If you want to re import those Bookmarks at some point, with Safari open, from the menu bar click File > Import Bookmarks.
BTW... when you are searching the Finder there are two libraries. One is root the other is user.
The    ~ (Tilde) character represents user:   ~/Library
No tilde: /Library     is root

I updated my iPhone 4S to iOS 6 and lost all of my safari bookmarks. Any way to get them back?

I updated to the iOS 6 yesterday and just noticed all of my safari bookmarks are gone. I have an iPhone 4S running iOS 6, I use iCloud for backing up my phone. Any help is appreciated.

What were you syncing your contacts with? If you were not syncing them to a contact manager or cloud service as intended, you may have to purchase 3rd party software to try and extract what informaion there is from the backup.

Safari Bookmarks Lost via Drag and Drop to Finder

All of my most important bookmarks vanished without a trace after I dragged and dropped their folder from the "Show All Bookmarks" screen in Safari 4.0.3 to a Shared Network Drive in the Finder sidebar. The Shared Network Drive was not connected at the time (I hadn't realized), but I received no error message that the bookmarks could not be copied to the destination--the folder and its contents were simply gone. I've scoured all drives for the bookmark files with no luck, and I confirmed that dragging other files (not bookmarks) to the disconnected Shared Network Drive gives an error message and no change to file locations.
Admittedly, this particular situation is somewhat rare, but it seems like a kind of shoddy black hole in the software: no alerts, no trash bin, no bookmark files to be found.
Obviously this is a perfect example of why one should backup bookmarks via Time Machine, MobileMe, etc.--but I really just want to understand the problem, and to see it resolved if necessary. Any ideas? Similar experiences?
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Thanks very much for your reply, Carolyn.
I tried a Spotlight search as you suggested, but found no file called "Safari Bookmarks.html," and nothing with a similar name. Would that be some kind of master log of my Safari bookmarks?
I'm looking everywhere for an alternate record of those web addresses (router, cache, cookies, Google), but unfortunately I empty my Safari history regularly and nothing else has panned out so far.

INSTALLED 3.1.1 - FORMER BOOKMARKS GONE!

Installed 3.1.1. Former bookmarks gone, replaced with what Apple apparently thinks we should use for bookmarks (Google maps, Yahoo, etc.) - maybe they get money for them.
Fix was:
Quit Safari.
In User/Library/Safari/ change Bookmarks.plist to Bookmarks0.plist and LastSession.plist to Bookmarks.plist
Start Safari - no Bookmarks appear.
Quit Safari.
In User/Library/Safari/ change Bookmarks.plist to LastSession.plist and Bookmarks0.plist to Bookmarks.plist
Start Safari - old Bookmarks are back.

Yikes! I did this (apparently incorrectly) and now have lost all of my bookmarks. Anyway to retrieve? I'd rather lose my hair than my bookmarks.

Safari bookmarks have disappeared

HI,
My husband & I have just replced out 4S iphones under warranty. Mine was software issues where i was told to disregard my last back up and set up as a new phone. That was fine because a lot of my stuff was saved on icloud so that was transferred to my new phone. Now the issue is when my husbands phone was replaced, 4 days after mine, i have now lost all my Safari bookmarks. Like they have all gone & I now have my husbands instead. No matter what i do i can't get my bookmarks back. Any tips?

goto the settings and safari and delete all cookies, history and cache.

Safari Bookmarks won't Save???

When I save my safari bookmarks they save until I quit safari and reboot it. When I reboot it all of the bookmarks are gone. This happens every time I try. I am running Safari 6.0.2. Thanks for the Help!!

Back up all data. Don't continue unless you're sure you can restore from a backup, even if you're unable to log in.
This procedure will unlock all your user files (not system files) and reset their ownership and access-control lists to the default. If you've set special values for those attributes on any of your files, they will be reverted. In that case, either stop here, or be prepared to recreate the settings if necessary. Do so only after verifying that those settings didn't cause the problem. If none of this is meaningful to you, you don't need to worry about it.
Step 1
If you have more than one user account, and the one in question is not an administrator account, then temporarily promote it to administrator status in the Users & Groups preference pane. To do that, unlock the preference pane using the credentials of an administrator, check the box marked Allow user to administer this computer, then reboot. You can demote the problem account back to standard status when this step has been completed.
Triple-click the following line to select it. Copy the selected text to the Clipboard (command-C):
{ sudo chflags -R nouchg,nouappnd ~ $TMPDIR.. ; sudo chown -Rh $UID:staff ~ $_ ; sudo chmod -R u+rwX ~ $_ ; chmod -R -N ~ $_ ; } 2> /dev/null
Paste into the Terminal window (command-V). You'll be prompted for your login password, which won't be displayed when you type it. You may get a one-time warning to be careful. If you don’t have a login password, you’ll need to set one before you can run the command. If you see a message that your username "is not in the sudoers file," then you're not logged in as an administrator.
The command will take a noticeable amount of time to run. Wait for a new line ending in a dollar sign (“$”) to appear, then quit Terminal.
Step 2 (optional)
Step 1 should give you usable permissions in your home folder. This step will restore special attributes set by OS X on some user folders to protect them from unintended deletion or renaming. You can skip this step if you don't consider that protection to be necessary, and if everything is working as expected after step 1.
Boot into Recovery by holding down the key combination command-R at startup. Release the keys when you see a gray screen with a spinning dial.
When the OS X Utilities screen appears, select
Utilities ▹ Terminal
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In the Terminal window, type this:
res
Press the tab key. The partial command you typed will automatically be completed to this:
resetpassword
Press return. A Reset Password window will open. You’re not going to reset a password.
Select your boot volume ("Macintosh HD," unless you gave it a different name) if not already selected.
Select your username from the menu labeled Select the user account if not already selected.
Under Reset Home Directory Permissions and ACLs, click the Reset button.
Select
 ▹ Restart
from the menu bar.

Safari bookmarks suddenly started deleting themselves today...

Safari bookmarks suddenly started deleting themselves today - I could only watch while it happened, and took just a matter of seconds. My bookmarks sync across my iPhone and iCloud, so they're gone everywhere - and I don't have my Time Machine working... Any ideas as their restoration..?

Do you happen to have another browser installed and if so, did you ever import Safari bookmarks to that browser?
If so, you can export them back to Safari then sync to iCloud.
And try restarting your Mac and iPhone both.
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Bookmarks gone

Hi, all My bookmarks in Safari is gone. Hon can I get Them back? Have tried to kill Safari but it didnt help. I have restarted the pad and that didnt help. I Think they disapered at the last program update ios6.

Try it one more time, but kill Safari and then follow that up with the reset.
If that doesn't work, you can try restoring from your backup. If you backup with regularity and if you backed up before you updated, like you should do any time that you update, the bookmarks should be in your backup.
How to backup and restore from a backup
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1766

Safari Bookmarks vanished

Did some updates on my iPad. Installed instapaper. came to Mac. there might have been a mobileMe sync. Safari bookmarks vanished. Nada. Seem gone from Me and from my Mac.
Are they backed up somewhere? HELP!

Here is my resolution:
1) MobileMe turned out to be worse than useless here - Instapaper install (stay away) screwed up the bookmarks (destroyed the bookmarks bar). The "sync" with MobileMe destroyed the version there. Then back to my Pro.
When I tried to "sync" with my iPhone (last vestige of bookmarks) - using USB connect to Pro -the "Sync" destroyed what was on the iPhone.
2) As it turns out, I had (until a week ago) been using Xmarks for Safari (recommend). So I had a version that was somewhat usable. Not willing to do another "sync" operation, I EXPORTED the bookmarks to HTML and imported them into Safari. Worked. Partial recovery. Then turned on the sync with Xmarks. Fine.
3) Then I had to PUSH the bookmarks back out to my iPad and iPhone.
4) Have disconnected the MobileMe "sync"
LESSONS:
"Sync" is not defined and should not let one source dominate without asking. A "merge" should be just that - even if it causes some redundancy.
The terms "backup" and "restore" on iTunes is EXTREMELY misleading.
Should say BACKUP OF SETTINGS and RESTORE TO FACTORY SETTINGS
Yes, I need to make sure my bookmarks are backed up (recommend using Xmarks - even if you use Time Machine). Frankly, I would think that Safari would carry an occasional backup - or let you set a backup period.
Or give/embed a script/task that will have certain items backed up (few files, not full backups).

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